Wood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Hamilton v. State (1977), 122 Ga. App. 455 - Willis v. State (1970)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Preston v. United States · United States v. Di Re · Bacon v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Code Ann. § 27-309 allows the search of persons not particularly described in the search warrant only where the executing officer may reasonably believe that it is necessary (1) to protect himself from attack, or (2) to prevent the disposal or concealment of items particularly described in the warrant.” (Emphasis supplied.) Wood v. State, 224 Ga. 121, 124 ( 160 SE2d 368 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.